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Ray LaMontagne
Solo artist Nashua United States
Ray LaMontagne is an artist from Nashua. Ray LaMontagne has 166 chart appearances on 93 radio countdowns from 23 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Beg, Steal Or Borrow”, which appears on 21 lists and was voted number one once. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Ray LaMontagne most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 39 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2010.
Ray LaMontagne was born in New Hampshire in 1973, and it was hearing a Stephen Stills album that set him on the path to music. What came out, once he did, was a hushed, smoky folk-soul sound built on acoustic guitar, harmonica and a voice that seems to rise from somewhere deep in the chest, the kind of singer critics kept comparing to Otis Redding, Van Morrison, Tim Buckley and Nick Drake.
Trouble, in 2004, introduced the aching title song and "Jolene", and on RCA he kept widening the frame: Till the Sun Turns Black in 2006, Gossip in the Grain in 2008 with "You Are the Best Thing", a blast of old-school soul. He went looking further afield in the 2010s, with the sunny, dreamy Supernova in 2014, then Ouroboros in 2016 and Part of the Light in 2018.
The Cruising EP followed in 2020 with "Strong Enough", and his most recent album, Long Way Home, arrived in 2024 with "Step Into Your Power".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Ray LaMontagne on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Ray LaMontagne as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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